Face Vessel
Face Vessel
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- Description
- Most stoneware pottery produced in the South before about 1890 is
- covered with alkaline glazes made from local materials.
- Based on lime or wood ash, these glazes often fired to a green or brown color, typical of 19th-century southern stoneware.
- Although this piece was found in Portsmouth, New Hampshire it shares some characteristics of early southern face vessels.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- vessel, face
- Date made
- mid 19th century
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- date made
- mid- 19th century
- maker
- unknown
- Associated Place
- United States: South Carolina, Edgefield
- Physical Description
- ceramic, stoneware, coarse (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in; 20.32 cm
- overall: 7 7/16 in x 5 in x 5 1/2 in; 18.89125 cm x 12.7 cm x 13.97 cm
- ID Number
- CE.392525
- catalog number
- 392525
- accession number
- 196885
- Credit Line
- Lura Woodside Watkins
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Cultures & Communities
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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